Archimedes’ Blues (detail)

Give me somewhere to play my harp
and I’ll wake up this town

Hoptonwood limestone plaque, 2003 (private collection)
h.60cm, w.75cm, d.3.5cm.

This Greek inscription brings full circle a humorous quotation from an old time blues singer Gimme a guitar and a place to play and I’ll shake this old town who alluded to Archimedes’ comment on levers: ‘Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth’.